October 2025

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HERDSA Notices 1 October 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: Do Educators Need to Understand the Gen Z Stare?
* HERDSA Community: HERDSA SA announces the outcome of its small grants applications for 2025!
* The Pedagogy of Student Belonging and Wellbeing Special Interest Group Meeting 25/9/25, 12pm
* Special Issue Call: Learning & Teaching with Social Justice in the University Classroom: Contemporary Approaches & Challenges
* CRADLE celebrates 10 years! "The road behind and the journey ahead" - 10th anniversary seminar


HERDSA Notices 8 October 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: ‘Don’t be sorry, just declare it’: safeguarding the integrity of the essay
* Register for the HERDSA Academic Development SIG Webinar next week
* Final 2025 HERDSA Online in HE - SiG event - Widening the Doors in HE: Implications for Engaging Underrepresented Student Online
* Never a better time to join HERDSA - New HERDSA SoTL Modules Coming Soon
* CRADLE celebrates 10 years! "The road behind and the journey ahead" - 10th anniversary seminar
* Uni student wellbeing research hub webinar


HERDSA Notices 15 October 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: ‘Keep it simple’ to make moments of authentic learning visible
* HERDSA Community: From vision to practice: Wrapping up the Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment
* HERDSA SoTL SIG -- This Friday!!! -- The reflective academic: Experiencing forms of autoethnography in SoTL
* Are you up for a coffee and SoTL chat?
* HERDSA Webinar: The 5C Formula for Impactful SoTL Projects
* Reimagining Assessment in Uncertain Times: Dialogues from the UK and Australia


HERDSA Notices 22 October 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: No-Code, No Problem: How Educators Are Building Their Own Learning Apps in Minutes
* HERDSA Community: PhD by publication, prior publication and creative works: Publishing Pathways and Avoiding Potholes Workshop Recordings
* The Pedagogy of Student Belonging and Wellbeing Special Interest Group Meeting 31/10/25, 12pm
* HERDSA Online Engagement in HE (SiG event) Widening the Doors in HE: Implications for Engaging Underrepresented Students Online


HERDSA Notices 29 October 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: A Singapore Branch to put “Asia” into Australasia
* New HERSDA SoTL Modules Coming Soon – Module 4 – SoTL Research Methods – Action research, surveys, observations, interviews,
* NERA Conference 2026 - a Nordic conference for educational research.
* CRADLE Seminar Series: 'More than the individual: transforming feedback cultures'
* CAULLT webinar: AI’s First Disrupted Profession: Practical Strategies for Teaching in a Changing Higher Education Sector
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development


NSW Branch nominates a new Branch Executive

The NSW branch continues to provide professional leadership opportunities while supporting HE policy, T&L practice and SoTL, exemplified by our new branch executive committee. Nominations were sort  by the 1 October 2025 from all HERDSA members across NSW, for roles spanning from leadership in governance, membership co-ordination, communication and event planning. Special congratulations to Gina Saliba (ACAP) who is stepping up into a Co-Chair role after her extemporary work as our Events lead.


HERDSA Hong Kong Branch Dinner Dialogue – 23 October 2025

The HERDSA Hong Kong Branch hosted its signature Dinner Dialogue on 23 October 2025, bringing together local members and colleagues for an evening of engaging discussion and collegial exchange over dinner. Since its founding in 1997, the Dinner Dialogue series has been a hallmark of the Branch, providing a relaxed yet intellectually stimulating environment for educators to explore emerging issues in higher education.


Inside IJAD: What We Learned from Four Journal Editors About Getting Published

How many academic journals do you know that let you submit a 250-word proposal for a paper and then provide constructive feedback before you commit the time and energy to a complete manuscript? The International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD) is one such supportive journal — and as we discovered, this developmental approach is what the journal is aiming to do.